Warehouse Configuration

After installation the first step is to configure the warehouses/vendors you have. Depending on your requirements you may be using warehouses in a variety of ways including:

Each warehouse maps onto an actual warehouse you distribute from

Warehouses are used to segment your products into different carriers/delivery types (with possibly different origins as well e.g. You may ship some items from NY using FedEx and some items using USPS. In this scenario using 2 warehouses is a good way of handling that

A warehouse is a supplier, vendor, manufacturer, drop-shipper

To configure your warehouses:

Open Magento Admin and navigate to Shipping Mgr->Manage Warehouses

For each warehouse click Add Warehouse

Enter warehouse details according to table below, and the shipping carriers that this warehouse supports

If you need to change the default carrier configuration then enter that as required (see section below for more information)

Warehouse Settings

Field

Description

Title

Internal reference name of the warehouse

Description

Customer viewable description of the warehouse

Origin Street

Purely optional, used in emails

Origin City

This is optional for a lot of carriers, but some such as ABF Freight, FedEx Freight rely on it being present in order to return rates, so recommended you always enter

Origin State

The state code for this origin. It must be the code, not the textual representation e.g. NY, CA